leveret
Noun
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Noun
leveret (plural leverets)
- A young hare.
- 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act V, Scene 5,
- […] Shall I die like a leveret,
- Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
- I am slain!
- 1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller, London: H. Herringman,
- Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
- Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
- Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
- Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;
- 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book 10,
- As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;
- Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;
- Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,
- And from the herd still turn the flying prey:
- So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;
- So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.
- 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 16,
- They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.
- 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act V, Scene 5,
- French: levraut, levreteau (unweaned)
- German: Häschen, Häslein
- Italian: leprotto
- Portuguese: lebroto
- Russian: зайчо́нок
- Spanish: lebrato
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